Scratchin Mamba

4y

The American revolution gotta be the most overrated revolution oat

It may also have been a bourgeois revolution like the French revolution insofar as it also overthrew a monarchy, but it's no way near comparable in its actual effect on their societies class relations. The French revolution was an actual social revolution that transformed French society, the American revolution wasn't much more than a local rebellion that allowed the American colonists to allocate more of their resources towards colonizing further into the west and preserve slavery, meanwhile the French revolutionaries actually abolished slavery.

The French revolution was a progressive revolution in abolishing feudal class system and slavery (until Napoleon), the American revolution was more of a secession to preserve slavery than an actual revolution seeking to abolish class system.

Scratchin Mamba

4y

The American revolution gotta be the most overrated revolution oat

It may also have been a bourgeois revolution like the French revolution insofar as it also overthrew a monarchy, but it's no way near comparable in its actual effect on their societies class relations. The French revolution was an actual social revolution that transformed French society, the American revolution wasn't much more than a local rebellion that allowed the American colonists to allocate more of their resources towards colonizing further into the west and preserve slavery, meanwhile the French revolutionaries actually abolished slavery.

The French revolution was a progressive revolution in abolishing feudal class system and slavery (until Napoleon), the American revolution was more of a secession to preserve slavery than an actual revolution seeking to abolish class system.

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Are there Frenchoid reactionaries that shyt on the French revolution but praise the Amerikkkan revolution

@Nessy @Q3D @ImFrench

Q3D

4y

Probably some royalists yeah but French revolution is a pretty big symbol so people just run with it even when they don't have an accurate representation of what it was

Scratchin Mamba

4y

They don't make a distinction between French revolution and Napoleon era?

Q3D

4y

F*** napoleon

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Are there Frenchoid reactionaries that shyt on the French revolution but praise the Amerikkkan revolution

@Nessy @Q3D @ImFrench

Nessy

4y

nah only royalists s*** on the french revolution and they dont get hard for americans much. But one guy who works in cinema told me steve bannon approached him to make a documentary on the horrors of the french revolution so it might be a neocon ting

Cudderwalks

4y

Dengist moment

krishna bound

4y

one of my favorite stories about China and Israel is that during the initial capitalist reforms of the country post-Mao coinciding with more non-isolated global diplomacy, there were social exchanges with Israel and jews abroad (namely from within the US), and the misunderstanding of social contexts and norms as small amounts of foreign cultural influence trickled into china lead some early small business owners to either dress up as orthodox jews or put jewish ornaments in their buildings thinking this would bring them success/wealth to their businesses/communities since the abroad connection was jewish = good business

this sounds anti-semitic but this actually happened

SEGA GOON

4y

I talked to a Chinese PhD student who thought Israel is a Muslim country

fun guy

4y

so sad how gaddafi gave up libyas nukes, helped fight the war on terror, and even ushered in neoliberal reforms towards the end of his life only for the US and Europe to coup him anyways